12 top eventers who came out to play last weekend (including a Burghley champion)

The first events of the season are always a thrill. It doesn’t matter that top horses tend to be run slowly, in anticipation of bigger things in a few months’ time — just seeing them again gives us a buzz. Here we celebrate 12 of Britain’s best event horses jumping round Oasby last weekend (8-11 March 2018)

Don’t miss the full report and analysis in tomorrow’s issue of Horse & Hound magazine (15 March 2018)

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Last year’s Burghley runners up Piggy French and Vanir Kamira

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Caroline Powell and Up Up And Away, who finished in the top 20 at Pau last year on his four-star debut